In yet another sickening violent development connected to hip-hop, nine innocent bystanders were shot Sunday night outside a concert promoted by San Francisco radio station 106.1 KMEL. Dubbed 'House of Soul,' the concert featured R&B crooner Trey Songz and other notable singers.
Around 10:30 pm, a fight broke out outside the Regency Center (a venue in San Francisco's famously decrepit Tenderloin neighborhood). Nine people were hit and went to the hospital with non-threatening injuries.
"A fist fight started," explained Sergeant Lyn Tomioka of the SFPD. "The fight escalated and somebody began shooting. Nine people were hit in their lower extremities."
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the gunman fled on foot. He has been described as a black male in his 30s wearing an unbuttoned white shirt with pinstripes, white t-shirt, blue jeans and a baseball cap.
"This was at the end of an event, and several people were around at the time and witnessed what happened," said Sgt. Wilfred Williams, a Police Department spokesman. "We are encouraging those people to come forward and help us identify the shooter."
This news comes in the midst of a violent year surrounding hip-hop. Last week, a New Boyz concert erupted into a near riot in Michigan. Six people were left unconscious, while one person had a seizure and another was stabbed with a pen.
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Reader Comments(1 of 9)
Deborahat 11-16-2009
There is a suprise.
watdafukat 11-16-2009
Yea, surprised it was only nine.
Steveat 11-16-2009
Maybe this would be just the right time for God to send "The Big One", and allow the ground to swallow such people up.
bpcfdat 11-16-2009
go figure.... a shooting at a hip-hop concert
gregat 11-16-2009
dont describe this as a concert> its really just an excuse to misbehave. these followeres of rab arnt adults just a bunch of boys who will never be adults no matter how long they live. and i hope they never breed
hart-_5505at 11-17-2009
eugenics, that was very popular with the leader of the National Socialist German Worker's Party (Nazis)
Taloat 11-16-2009
You know... You see pictures of these idiot gangbangers holding their pistols sideways because they think it's cool? Maybe if they held them straight they wouldn't end up shooting nine of the wrong people. It is obvious they can't hit the side of a barn like that. I hope "Brain Missing" or "Tiny Member" or whatever this waste of space calls himself caught one of his own hot shell casings in the eye as it ejected. Maybe we can convince the IQ-less Dorfs it's "way cool" to point them backward?..
JessfromtheMidwestat 11-16-2009
The name is Trey Songz, and maybe if you weren't so blinded by pointless anger and hate you could have remembered what you read less than 2 minutes ago. He's also an R&B singer and NOT a rapper. You don't see black people walking around preaching about how much they hate rock-n-roll or country, which might I add both got their start from R&B that originated from black people. Funny how you speak of others ignorance, grouping and stereotyping all the while your forgetting your own ignorance...how entertaining to see how much hate people let consume themselves when they could just as well avoid the article, change the station, or turn off the radio. As much as there are violent events such as this in the black community there are just as many positive events, but nobody wants to hear about all the good black people in this country.
JessfromtheMidwestat 11-16-2009
The name is Trey Songz, and maybe if you weren't so blinded by pointless anger and hate you could have remembered what you read less than 2 minutes ago. He's also an R&B singer and NOT a rapper. You don't see black people walking around preaching about how much they hate rock-n-roll or country, which might I add both got their start from R&B that originated from black people. Funny how you speak of others ignorance, grouping and stereotyping all the while your forgetting your own ignorance...how entertaining to see how much hate people let consume themselves when they could just as well avoid the article, change the station, or turn off the radio. As much as there are violent events such as this in the black community there are just as many positive events, but nobody wants to hear about all the good black people in this country.
Kurtat 11-16-2009
ah ha ha ha best comment ive heard tonight
jdevs99at 11-16-2009
He wasnt talking about the singer you moron....
Rubyat 11-17-2009
Jess, what are you thinking, seriously? It doesn't have anything to do with race and no one you replied to even said that. Black, White, Hispanic all produce this fake crap. And you said they work hard composing? You are definitely delusional because most of it is oversampled, ripped off music that other musicians really did work hard on writing every note and actually playing the instruments themselves. Just to have morons come along and rip it off and basically turn it into repetitive Chinese water torture. The mainstream hip hop scene is nothing more than money and lifestyle and has nothing to do with real music. And talk about hate and anger... well who's out there with guns shooting each other up, darlin'? Sure isn't the rock and country musicians, that's right, real musicians. Not that they are all saints, but come on now. Not a bunch of punk asses looking for a lifestyle and going out of their way to actually live up to the stereotypes. You are really going to defend this crap that constantly spews out the N word, bitches and whores and other stuff I won't even mention cuz that is what they were talking about and what teaches these guys to behave this way by constantly glorying it in videos and whatnot. They, as well as I are sick of that crap and on a forum giving their opinion and they are the hateful ones? The very ones sitting at home.. not out with guns shooting each other or at least trying to but miss and hit everyone that has nothing to do with it. And then you want to turn it into a racial issue. How many black comedians rip white people apart in every way shape and form? But if a white does it then we are racist pigs. And you don't think blacks constantly make fun of country and rock? I have 2 black boys in my home that constantly put down white people and rock and country music, always calling their little 11yr old white brother gay cuz he's white... and always saying, "white people are stupid asses" and "stupid ass white people". We don't teach them that shit, they learn it from the hip hop, black comedy on BET and rap crapola and go out of their way to be so "stereotypically black" cuz that's how they see their own race from the crap spewed out in the mainstream and they actually want to be "thugs"! We struggle so hard trying to teach these boys respect and everything we try to teach them goes right out the window as soon as they turn on the TV or radio. And you're gonna defend this shit... way to go!
dhen422at 11-16-2009
THIS IS R AND B YOU STEREOTYPING PIGS AND THIS HAPPENS AT ROCK CONCERTS TOO.. COUNTRY CONCERTS TOO... EVERY RACE HAS DISGRACEFUL IGNORANT PEOPLE.
GILBERTat 11-16-2009
NO WE DON'T..!!!
RYANat 11-16-2009
NO,not really.....someone might get drunk and maybe fight or something stupid like that but 9 people only get killed in iraq,afganistan or a rap concert.....or maybe a latin soccer game.